Sheriff’s deputies in Travis County, Texas, will not receive life-saving body armor because Sheriff Sally Hernandez has not applied for a grant that requires certifying compliance with ICE detainer requests.
The FBI’s annual Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted report for 2016 was finalized Monday and shows substantial increases in all relevant categories. Most saliently, the number of officers “feloniously killed” in the line-of-duty jumped to 66, a 61 percent increase over 2015.
Governor Greg Abbott addressed members of the Texas House and Senate in his State of the State Address on Tuesday and laid out his emergency items, including banning sanctuary cities, reforming the embattled agency responsible for safeguarding children, calling for a Convention of States to address overreaches by the federal government, and ethics reform governing elected officials.
As violence continues to occur in and around Black Lives Matter demonstrations, one cyber security intelligence firm argues that America is witnessing an unmistakable trend of further radicalization within the leftist grassroots movement.
In light of recent executions of police officers in downtown Dallas, the state of Texas now leads the country in “law enforcement officers feloniously killed”, according to a national nonprofit that tracks such cases for 2016.
A leading Dallas police officers association will be able to provide substantial financial support to the families that lost loved ones during the Black Lives Matter protest in early July with the help of a veteran-founded apparel company.
Only weeks after the executions of five Dallas area police officers at a Black Lives Matter protest, local social justice activists are set to continue demonstrations against “police brutality” in memory “of those who have fallen”.
Using social media platforms, jihadis have exploited ambush attacks on the police in an attempt to recruit black Americans to their cause, urging them to convert to Islam and make war against the U.S. government.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “O’Reilly Factor,” columnist Charles Krauthammer stated that connecting Black Lives Matter with the killing of police officers in Baton Rouge and Dallas is “dangerous” and “the wrong thing to do.” Krauthammer said
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher stated that while there isn’t any excuse for shooting policeman “I do understand it.” And “I understand the motivation,” “I’m surprised somebody did not fire back sooner.” Maher
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” Ebony Magazine Senior Editor Jamilah Lemieux stated that she disagreed with characterizing the shooting of Dallas police officers as a hate crime and using that term for “a group of people that have a history
Obama hijacked the funeral service for the murdered Dallas policemen on Tuesday, turning a memorial service into a political event for his own gain. It was vintage Obama, self-centered, preaching to the country and the world, never ceasing to edge his politics and ideology into the mix.
During a speech in Warsaw, Poland on Saturday, President Obama stated that “it’s very hard to untangle the motives” of the shooter who shot at police in Dallas, and that while, “he may have used as an excuse, his anger
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that in the discussions after the shooting of police officers in Dallas, and the shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, “it doesn’t help that we have an American political debate with
During Saturday’s Weekly Address, Vice President Joe Biden stated, “It’s on all of us to stand up, to speak out about disparities in our criminal justice system—just as it’s on all of us to stand up for the police who
A black pro-life leader says the mainstream media that props up the pro-abortion Black Lives Matter movement won’t report that Planned Parenthood kills many more black lives in one day than police are accused of killing in an entire year.
Sean Illing writes in Salon about “the vicious dialectic of violence and retaliation” evoked by the murder of five police officers and wounding of seven others in Dallas on Thursday during a Black Lives Matter protest.
During MSNBC’s coverage of the shooting of police officers in Dallas, TX, anchor Brian Williams asked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) whether any “good guys with guns” intervened to stop the shooting of police officers. Williams asked, “Nothing about
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin posted the following to her Facebook page on Friday in response to the ambush and murder of five police officers and wounding of seven others in Dallas Thursday night during a Black Lives Matter protest.
Police officers in three different states have been ambushed around the time-frame of the Dallas shooting that left five officers dead and many others injured. Officers were shot in what authorities described as “ambushes” in Missouri, Tennessee and Georgia Friday.
Breitbart Executive Chairman and SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon explained to his Breitbart News Daily listeners that the “lawlessness” in Dallas on Thursday night is “inextricably linked” to a “systemic crisis in our institutions,” as seen most recently by the Obama Justice Department’s refusal to indict Hillary Clinton for her gross negligence, lies, and compromise of our national security in the handling of her emails.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Dallas Police Deputy Chief Malik Aziz stated, “I think across the nation, officers are feeling under siege,” and “We need to come together. Black Lives Matter, police need to come together, community,
At a press conference convened Friday morning by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) following the shootings, Richmond referred to the CBC as the “conscience” and “intellectual capacity” of Congress as he used the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling of Louisiana and Philando Castile of Minnesota by police officers, and the killing of the Dallas police officers as reason to call for further gun control measures.
Members of the Black Lives Matter movement should not get “discouraged by those who would use your lawful actions as a cover for their heinous violence,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Friday.
During CNN’s coverage of the shooting of 11 police officers in Dallas, TX that left four officers dead, CNN Political Commentator and New York Times columnist Charles Blow stated that because of open carry laws, “Police don’t know if the person who
In a stern letter to CNN President Jeff Zucker on Monday, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called upon top CNN brass for the removal of “Newsroom” anchor Fredricka Whitfield, over her reckless comments in describing the brutal assault on the Dallas Police Department headquarters last weekend as “very courageous and brave.”
Jim Boulware, the emotionally distraught father of would-be Dallas Police killer James Boulware, gave CNN’s Sara Sidner a unique twist on the all-too-familiar litany of victimization excuses that are often made in the aftermath of criminal behavior, asking the reporter during his interview: “Where can a white man go for help?”
CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield called the attack on Dallas Police Headquarters “very courageous and brave” on Saturday’s “CNN Newsroom.”
Dallas police have disabled the armored van used in the shooting and pipe bomb incident at the Dallas Police Headquarters early Saturday morning. What is believed to be the vehicle used in this assault was described as a “Zombie Apocalypse Assault Vehicle and Troop Transport.” Police disabled the vehicle with a .50 caliber rifle shot to the engine block.
DALLAS, Texas — The sound of sirens and gunfire erupted in the downtown Dallas air after midnight in a wild scene, as a a reportedly ‘armored van’ rammed police and then witnesses say multiple suspects opened fire outside Dallas Police headquarters. UPDATED: Police believe a single suspect was involved, and was killed by a police sniper during a standoff.
